History
- 1918 Founded as Kyung Sung Public Agricultural College
- 1956 Promoted to four-year college and renamed Seoul Agricultural College
- 1975 Oversight committee transferred from the Seoul Board of Education to Seoul Metropolitan Government
- 1981 Renamed Seoul City University
- 1987 Promoted to comprehensive university (4 colleges and 22 departments)
- 1993 Founded the Institute of Seoul Studies under the auspices of the Seoul Metropolitan Government
- 1996 Founded the College of Urban Sciences
- 1997 Renamed the University of Seoul
- 1997 Established the university's unique identity as a Mecca for the Urban Sciences Designated as the Distinguished University in the Urban Sciences by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development
- 1998 Founded the Institute of Urban Sciences
- 2003 Launched Strategic Plan 2003-2007, "Upgrade University of Seoul"
- 2003, 2004 Redesignated as the Distinguished University centered on the Urban Sciences by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development
- 2005 Founded the Institute for International Cooperation and Education
- 2008 90th Anniversary of UOS
- 2009 Founded UOS Law School
Read more about this topic: University Of Seoul
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)